2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Mueller report — the result of a 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election — didn’t end the debate over whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice or acted inappropriately while in office. But there’s one thing it proved beyond any debate: The President lies with remarkable ease and cajoles those around him to do the same. The examples of Trump’s willingness to bend the truth to breaking documented by special counsel Robert Mueller are legion. Here are just a few: •Trump told White House counsel Don McGahn to deny that Trump had ordered him to fire Mueller in the summer of 2017 following media reports that detailed the episode. McGahn refused to lie, insisting that his memory of the incident was correct •Trump told the media that he had fired FBI director James Comey because of a memo written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein detailing the ways in which Comey broke the chain of command during the 2016 election. The Mueller report notes that Trump had made the decision to fire Comey before Rosenstein ever put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).”
–Chris Cillizza, “Here’s the 1 thing the Mueller report proves beyond a shadow of a doubt,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 19, 2019 12:45 pm